CAMPAIGNERS have joined forces to demand funding for Scottish debt advice services as the cost-of-living crisis continues to bite.
Fresh from its victorious Feed the Weans campaign to scrap school meal debt in Glasgow, Unite for a Workers Economy has allied with fuel poverty activists at Power to the People and debt advisers to launch the Face to Face campaign.
Writing to First Minister Humza Yousaf, they have demanded a reversal of the cuts to debt advice that have coincided with the cost-of-living crisis and a 40 per cent increase in fuel poverty over the last three years.
The letter demands the Scottish governments fuel insecurity fund be increased to 40 million, for council debt advice funding to be boosted by 20 per cent and for the…
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